High Voltage Sparks

By disassembling a disposable camera, we can use the flash circuit to create high voltage sparks. Warning: This project can generate a deadly current and without proper safety precautions, you will die. I take no responsibility for injury or death that may occur. There are further safety recommendations in the last step.

Step 1 Disassemble the camera

Pry the camera open using a knife and brute force. You don't need to save anything aside from the flash circuit.

Comments

[nh7tr]

what a fool, it will not kill u it has incredibly low amperage(need atleast .36 to die) get it straite befor u go scarin the public.

[uberdum05]

No, you need as low as 5mA to kill you...

[mythbusterma]

i tested a camera capaciter and it outputs about 25 ma, enough to hurt like hell and i almost destroed my mutilmeter testing it

[tinstructable]

On one of those bug zappers (2000v), it fried my electrical meter. It sucks

[uberdum05]

It takes something around 60 Ma (milliamp) and over 50 volts to kill you, 30 Ma and you're badly shocked. Something on the lines of that anyway.

[ParkerK]

Still hurts like hell though!

[rocketman221]

it is probably not deadly with one capacitor but put in 3 or 4 and it could be deadly

[mythbusterma]

then again......it would stop your heart right? so in theory you could shock yourself again and defribulate yourself into beating again

[mythbusterma]

3 would be deadly, at least according to my multimeter

[Coffee bean]

yep

[ComradeLynx]

Bridge what leads? Capacitor leads or xenon tube or whatt!??

[mythbusterma]

RESISTOR

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

i got shocked with a 1.5 volt camera, it shocked me so bad i couldnt talk or breathe!!

[rocketbat]

realy!? ive made a taser glove that uses a 1.5 volt flash, im not sure who to test it on..... how bad did it hurt?

[mythbusterma]

voltage=pain amperage=damage

and btw ten bucks says its not 1.5 volts pry more like 300 v from the capacitor

[Loosewire; SOE Operative]

PRITY BAD!! like i said it shoked the breath out of me

[stick-69]

I have been shocked twice by a camera flash. the first time i was in primary school, it knocked me backwards and gave me a blister the size of my thumb. 5 years later all I felt was a hum and a funny feeling thrugh my arm. the smaller u are, the worse it is... i think

[evanwehrer]

I got shocked changing a light bulb twice and it felt soooooo funny.

[Coffee bean]

ac and dc seem to feel different dont they

[mythbusterma]

ac actually relaxes your muscles dc tenses your muscles..... i think it might be the other way around

[edwin1989]

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[bylerfamily]

WRONG.The capacitor is still charged for weeks after you take the battery.If you don't believe me,open up a disposable camera and you will see a black tube about 3/4 inch long.Place your fingers across those leads at the same time...

[edwin1989]

As you may have noticed that comment was made 3 years ago and if you read all of the other comments made since then you would see that I already knew that:p

[bylerfamily]

Oh,didn't see the other comments.

[rocketman221]

you are quite wrong. the battery runs the charger which charges a capacitor which holds the high voltage. removing the battery will prevent it from charging but it does not drain the power in the capacitor.

[edwin1989]

lol when I made that comment a year ago I didn't know what a capacitor did, now I see you guys told me, but I already learned it at school haha! Don't get me wrong, I'm no newbie at this, I study physics at an university:) but it's weird I still get reminder emails because I left a comment here ages ago...

[Coffee bean]

im in high school and they see teach light bulbs and batteries. it is kinda sad because i no people in my HONORS class could do better

[5hales]

That was a silly comment. That is simply not true. The high voltage is stored in the capacitor. You can remove the batteries, the charge is still there. Simply short the cap leads with a screw driver to be safe. There will be a nice spark when you do it.

[FrenchCrawler]

Look at it like this: If you plug in an air compressor with a 5 gallon tank attached to it and allow the tank to fill up so that if you were to unplug the compressor from power, there would still be air in the tank. To Release the air, you would usually use a Release valve (or any tool you need the air for). The Compressor would be like the Batteries in the camera The 5 Gallon Tank would be like the Capacitor And the Release Valve would be either you/someone getting shocked or the screwdriver shorting out the leads. Just as 5hales explained below....

[skatepark13]

yea i used 6 9 volt batteries to power it not a good idea it blew up and i had to go the the hospital to get the piece of metal removed from my eye so dont over power these things

[mr.break_it]

whoa, good job. lol ADD much?,

[illdoyourdrugs]

You people STILL don't get it. A TAZER shoots projectiles into the target and electrocutes through wire. A STUNGUN uses two metal prongs pressed up against the target to electrocute. Get it right its really getting annoying!

[Wesley666]

People get it, they just aren't complete nerds and don't really care probably. LAZINESS

[disturbedreaper]

we get it its a comon misconception but get over it tazer is actualy just a brand name of the first one made its an acronim (dont know how to speel it) and the word evoled so no most things that create a powerful shock are refered to as a "tazer" so get over it youll hear it alot

[Coffee bean]

but the point is your right

[Noodle93]

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[Coffee bean]

if you really want to get picky it's TaSER

[evanwehrer]

Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle

[Coffee bean]

ooo the a is his middle name thanx

[illdoyourdrugs]

i messed up ONE letter. Get a life